Improvement in berry-boxes



CHARLES REESE Improvement in Berry-Boxes.

No. 126,087. Pate|1tedApril23,18721.

paper box than those heretofore in use.

CHARLES REESE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN BERRY-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,087, dated April23, 1872.

Specification describing Improvement in Berry-Boxes, invented by CHARLESREESE, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland.

The object of my invention is to provide for use of fruit raisers andsellers, and buyers of fruit generally, a cheaper and more serviceableTo this end I construct the box and fasten the flaps or folded parts ashereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box, and Fig. 2 is a view of theblank when laid out.

A represents a rectangular piece of cardboard or stiff paper, and B thepart for bottom of box. This has slots 1) therein, by which air may beadmitted to box. In blanks A are out four slits, a a a a, in alignmentwith the edges of bottom B. The short sides A A are now folded on theedges of bottom B, and turned up to a perpendicular position, while thelong sides A A are folded on the other two edges of bottom B and theirends turned on the sides A until they lap over each other.

They are then securely fastened by a strip, 0, of tin or equivalentmaterial, whose ends are passed through the three thicknesses of paperand bent down upon the inside. This forms a much stronger paperfruit-box than that described in my patent of June 19, 1866, or thanothers that are now known to the public, while the cost of each box isso trifling, when manufactured in large quantities, as to be scarcelyany 'appreciable addition to that of the berries.

Havingthns described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, the paper berry-box herein described,formed of the bot tom B, short sides A A and long sides A A when thelapped portions are connected at the end of the box by a single longnarrow tin or other sheet-metal strip, 0, applied as shown anddescribed.

CHARLES REESE.

Witnesses:

A. EnELEN, D. BRIDE.

